Keep the Gun Crazies out of Canada

Walter, thank you for this thoughtful, as always, reply.  I concur with all of it.

I do not own any guns; I do not want to own any guns.  As you point out, this gun stuff is toxic to tourism.  The other more potent threat, however, is the recruiting of former special forces alumni into private mercenary groups like Blackwater.  They are the highly-armed, disciplined, experienced shock troops, or Praetorian Guards, to support the corporate power structure if and when push comes to shoves.  Compared with Blackwater, the NRA are amateurs, and if the NRA gets in the way, Blackwater will crush them. It is disgusting; more and more we are reluctant to venture into public places, e.g. movie houses.  Online education will get a boost from this spreading terrorism, call it what it is; online shopping, too, will benefit from this growing fear of public places because of the gun nuts out there.  It has reached the point that one of my online students, a doctoral student, in Texas, tells me teachers there now lock their classroom doors out of fear!  Thank God you live where you do; do not let the rot, cancer of gun mania poison Canada.  This includes taking a swift severe line with the mutants who shoot up places like Toronto.  Stop it now, good and hard.  It is bed time now.  Paul